OpenAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever departs ChatGPT maker

“OpenAI would not be what it is without him,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a message to the company, which OpenAI posted on its blog.

Microsoft-backed OpenAI makes the popular ChatGPT chatbot, which sparked a race among the world’s largest tech companies for dominance in the emerging generative AI field.

Jakub Pachocki will be the company’s new chief scientist, the company said on its blog.